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A huge and hugely significant collection of much of the best Holocaust scholarship to appear in the last half-century." —Kirkus Reviews

... magnificent... surely among [the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s] greatest achievements to date.... The range of the essays is nothing short of breathtaking." —Jerusalem Post

Fifty-four chapters by the world’s most eminent Holocaust researchers probe topics such as Nazi politics, racial ideology, leadership, and bureaucracy; the phases of the Holocaust from definition to expropriation, ghettoization, deportation, and the death camps; Jewish leadership and resistance; the role of the Allies, the Axis, and neutral countries; the deeds of the rescuers; and the impact of the Holocaust on survivors.

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Table of Contents

Part 1: Probing the Holocaust: Where We Are, Where We Need to Go1. Sources and Their Uses 2. A Past That Will Not Go Away 3. The Holocaust: Where We Are, Where We Need to Go 4. The Holocaust: Where We Are, Where We Need to Go--A Comment

Part 2: Antisemitism and Racism in Nazi Ideology5. The Use of Antisemitism in Nazi Wartime Propaganda 6. The Holocaust: A Very Particular Racism 7. Antisemitism and Racism in Nazi Ideology 8. Antisemitism, the Holocaust, and Reinterpretations of National Socialism

Part 3: The Politics of Racial Health and Science9. Human Genetics and the Mass Murder of Jews, Gypsies, and Others 10. From Colonial Racism to Nazi Population Policy11. The Cooperation of German Racial Hygienists and American Eugenicists before and after 1933

Part 4: The Nazi State: Leadership and Bureaucracy12. Reinhard Heydrich and the Planning for the Final Solution 13. Plans for the Final Solution in Early 1941 14. State Policy and Corporate Involvement in the Holocaust 15. Civil Service and the Implementation of the Holocaust16. Other Crimes of Adolf Hitler Part 5: "Ordinary Men": The Sociopolitical Background17. The T4 Killers 18. Ordinary Germans or Ordinary Men? A Reply19. Complicity or Entanglement? Wehrmacht, War, and Holocaust 20. Amsterdam Police and the Persecution of the Jews 21. Ordinary Men or Ordinary Germans?

Part 6: Multiple Voices: Ideology, Exclusion, and Coercion22. Neglected Holocaust Victims23. "Slapping Up Spastics" 24. Final Solution of the Homosexual Question? 25. The Pink Triangle: Homosexuals as "Enemies of the State" 26. The Black Experience during the Holocaust

Part 7: Concentration Camps: Their Task and Environment27. Auschwitz 28. Antechamber to Birkenau29. Concentration Camps and the Non-Jewish Environment 30. Mauthausen, the Camps of the Shoah, and the Bystanders